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It is anachronistic. China's productivity, especially in shipbuilding, cannot be explained by reference to this historical analogy, since the trade deficit is a function of America's inability to produce.
@LukeGromen Productivity is the time per unit of value from input to output. Under that formula, a revalued gold cannot explain why the US has a trade deficit with China. The time per unit of value from input to output is unproductive in the US.
China has been investing so much in shipbuilding over the past 18 years that it can now build more ships in a month than the United States can in a year. Measured by time rather than gold or dollars, the situation draws into stark relief America's lack of productivity. 
Today, a court in Boston held President Trump's $100k fee for H-1B visas is illegal. But in December, a federal judge in D.C. declined to stop the same program. Both suits were brought by activists (one, a California-led coalition, the other, Chamber of Commerce). What gives?
These decisions help illustrate how, while we may be almost 18 months into President Trump's second term, so many of his policies have been stymied in the courts. Similar claims but different conclusions are just the most recent example of the novel scrutiny to executive action
Going through Judge Sorokin's (Obama, D. Mass) opinion, I'm looking for how he treats issues compared to Judge Howell (Obama, D.D.C.). First, consular nonreviewability. Howell sidesteps-with a denial he need not address. Sorokin finds that this visa denial via fee isn't a denial
As we head into the launch of Monument of Triumph on June 9, 2026, we wanted to gather some important topics from our recent blogs in one centralized place.
Each post will have a link to where you can read more information. 🧵
Each post will have a link to where you can read more information. 🧵
The Director returns as the main way to navigate Destinations and to activities.
The Portal and various respective Ops categories have been incorporated into the Director at the bottom of the screen.
📰 bung.ie/42SDe31
The Portal and various respective Ops categories have been incorporated into the Director at the bottom of the screen.
📰 bung.ie/42SDe31
Activity difficulties have been overhauled in Monument of Triumph. Less math, more playing.
➕ Selecting a difficulty will always result in you hitting a default reward rank and reward tier.
📈 Modifiers now allow higher scores to be reached without increasing difficulty, to offset the cost of selected boons, and to provide a completely optional challenge.
💠 Ex: Play at Expert and add additional modifiers to earn Tier 4 gear without facing Champions.
📰 bung.ie/42SDe31
➕ Selecting a difficulty will always result in you hitting a default reward rank and reward tier.
📈 Modifiers now allow higher scores to be reached without increasing difficulty, to offset the cost of selected boons, and to provide a completely optional challenge.
💠 Ex: Play at Expert and add additional modifiers to earn Tier 4 gear without facing Champions.
📰 bung.ie/42SDe31
Today, I sent a response to the Maryland Congressional Democrat delegation. For years, the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center—BARC—was allowed to literally fall apart. More than half its buildings are awaiting demolition. Meanwhile, that same delegation sunk BILLIONS of your tax dollars into the Purple Line, which is years behind schedule and billions over budget.
But suddenly, after both an Office of Special Counsel finding that BARC is an unsafe workplace AND @USDA's decision to provide more modern facilities for cutting edge agricultural research, the Maryland Democrats have something to say. 🤔
But suddenly, after both an Office of Special Counsel finding that BARC is an unsafe workplace AND @USDA's decision to provide more modern facilities for cutting edge agricultural research, the Maryland Democrats have something to say. 🤔
Read what the Special Counsel had to say⬇️
Do you have trees growing through the middle of your buildings?
Kuleba: Ukraine currently has no real leverage over Trump, but must keep looking.
Trump lives in a world of great powers, where big states decide what they want and everyone else obeys. Ukraine lives in another world: we are fighting a great power. 1/
Trump lives in a world of great powers, where big states decide what they want and everyone else obeys. Ukraine lives in another world: we are fighting a great power. 1/
Kuleba: For Trump, Ukraine defeating Russia is like Venezuela defeating the United States.
It simply does not fit his worldview. And he personally sympathizes with Putin; he would like to govern America the way Putin governs Russia. 2/
It simply does not fit his worldview. And he personally sympathizes with Putin; he would like to govern America the way Putin governs Russia. 2/
Kuleba: With European populists, do not just react to slogans.
Scratch the surface and you often find something else: a Russian trail, a business trail, domestic interests. Ukraine has to work with the people and businesses that influence them. 3/
Scratch the surface and you often find something else: a Russian trail, a business trail, domestic interests. Ukraine has to work with the people and businesses that influence them. 3/
@cfs_research @DuaneStorey As for the Jason study-
Is this the right way to recruit to people?
Via social media and assessed by a questionnaire-no confirmation they had an infection, any infection let alone long COVID?
Is this the right way to recruit to people?
Via social media and assessed by a questionnaire-no confirmation they had an infection, any infection let alone long COVID?
@cfs_research @DuaneStorey @cfs_research then there’s the second study, again recruitment via social media and assessed via questionnaires?
This is a very low quality cross-sectional survey.
I wouldn’t plan to even commission a clinic based on those numbers.
This is a very low quality cross-sectional survey.
I wouldn’t plan to even commission a clinic based on those numbers.
@cfs_research @DuaneStorey @cfs_research those prevalence numbers lack any credibility at all. There is no “gold standard.”
Here are the developer updates in visionOS 27 that caught my eye
This is a big release if you build spatial apps: RealityKit, Reality Composer Pro 3, Spatial Preview, foveated streaming, object tracking, immersive video, spatial web... It'll take days to list them all
This is a big release if you build spatial apps: RealityKit, Reality Composer Pro 3, Spatial Preview, foveated streaming, object tracking, immersive video, spatial web... It'll take days to list them all
RealityKit gets a lot more physical.
With visionOS 27, it adds physical space lighting, Projective Textures, real-time cloth simulation, Reverb Mesh for spatial audio, and efficient rendering for 3D Gaussian Splats (!!)
With visionOS 27, it adds physical space lighting, Projective Textures, real-time cloth simulation, Reverb Mesh for spatial audio, and efficient rendering for 3D Gaussian Splats (!!)
Reality Composer Pro 3 is a MAJOR update
With Live Preview (probably built on top of the new Spatial Preview API) it lets you see Mac edits on Apple Vision Pro instantly.
It also adds deeper Xcode integration, visual scripting, AI-assisted workflows, and richer scene iteration.
With Live Preview (probably built on top of the new Spatial Preview API) it lets you see Mac edits on Apple Vision Pro instantly.
It also adds deeper Xcode integration, visual scripting, AI-assisted workflows, and richer scene iteration.
So, I got to look to a pretty recent image thanks to a kind soul. As of May 22nd there are 203 T-80s left in Omsk. More than expected, but that's what happen when you rely on Copernicus and similar low res imagery.
There were 253 3 months ago, which fits with the previous estimate of ~15 T-80BVM per month.
Even more interesting, roughly half the remaning T-80s are T-80U/UDs based on their came scheme, there's even more piles of turrets (@T_90AK wink wink) and roughly 30 completely cannibalized and turretles T-80 hulls, likely to be converted to BREM-80s.
The U.N. is now attempting to redefine antisemitism out of existence.
Through its most famous appointed expert, the U.N. is erasing the term's meaning as hatred of Jews.
U.N. member states—UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Australia—must condemn this disgraceful distortion.
Through its most famous appointed expert, the U.N. is erasing the term's meaning as hatred of Jews.
U.N. member states—UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Australia—must condemn this disgraceful distortion.
2/ “Among Arabs and their supporters, it is sometimes said that Arabs cannot be anti-Semites since they themselves are Semites. This statement is meaningless. Anti-Semitism has never been concerned with anyone but Jews, and there is in any case no such thing as a Semite. Like the Aryan, he is a myth, and part of the same mythology.”
— Bernard Lewis
nybooks.com/articles/1986/…
— Bernard Lewis
nybooks.com/articles/1986/…
3/ “A common answer, given by or on behalf of Arabs, is that they cannot be anti-Semitic, since they themselves are Semites. The logic of this would seem to be that while an edition of Hitler's Mein Kampf published in Berlin or in Buenos Aires in German or Spanish is anti-Semitic, an Arabic version of the same text published in Cairo or Beirut cannot be anti-Semitic, because Arabic and Hebrew are cognate languages.”
ms.z-library.sk/book/wRN3b8oYj…
ms.z-library.sk/book/wRN3b8oYj…
On Saturday, I had the great honor to join @SecWar @MinisterVautrin and many distinguished civilian and uniformed leaders to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of D-Day at the American Cemetery at Omaha Beach. It was a stirring but also sobering reminder of the price of what General Eisenhower in his immortal message to the Allied Expeditionary Force called “security for ourselves in a free world.” 1/
I take it as a personal reminder of the importance of what we do. We must think clearly and soberly about building our strength and readiness in line with a wise and sound strategy, one that is clear-eyed and prepared to make difficult but needed changes. Our allies and we did not do that well enough before World War II. And courageous men paid the ultimate price to right that failure. 2/
Under @SecWar leadership, we are committed to living out the reality of that hard-won lesson. We are building our own military strength, revamping our defense industrial base, and enlisting our allies in getting back to the basics in the spirit of NATO 3.0. And that message is resonating. 3/3
war.gov/News/Releases/…
war.gov/News/Releases/…
I would love to be a fly on the wall for this event happening today in Seattle, hosted by Seattle Revolutionary Youth.
What makes this group especially wild is that they openly try to recruit kids as young as middle schoolers.
As you can see from the framing, “Why is revolution inevitable?,” this is not exactly subtle. It looks like a gateway into much crazier politics and a pretty obvious attempt to groom young kids into radicals.
What makes this group especially wild is that they openly try to recruit kids as young as middle schoolers.
As you can see from the framing, “Why is revolution inevitable?,” this is not exactly subtle. It looks like a gateway into much crazier politics and a pretty obvious attempt to groom young kids into radicals.
I would also wager this is being held at a public library, which gives younger attendees the easiest possible cover story: “I’m just going to the library after school.”
These youth activist groups in Seattle routinely use libraries and other public spaces for events like this, which makes the whole thing look much more normal and accessible to kids than it really should be.
These youth activist groups in Seattle routinely use libraries and other public spaces for events like this, which makes the whole thing look much more normal and accessible to kids than it really should be.
And for anyone who wants a better sense of this organization, here are some of their past protests.
OMG!! I just finished talking with an ADHD teen.
The way they described executive dysfunction
made the entire room go silent.
They said:
The way they described executive dysfunction
made the entire room go silent.
They said:
“It’s not that I don’t WANT to do things…
it’s that my brain won’t fully let me start.”
Not physically stuck.
Mentally stuck.
Like:
• a pause button that never releases
• invisible resistance
• watching yourself freeze in real time
while fully aware the whole time.
it’s that my brain won’t fully let me start.”
Not physically stuck.
Mentally stuck.
Like:
• a pause button that never releases
• invisible resistance
• watching yourself freeze in real time
while fully aware the whole time.
Then they said something even more heartbreaking:
“The longer I avoid something,
the heavier it becomes.”
Because time doesn’t reduce the pressure.
It multiplies it.
Now the brain is carrying:
• guilt
• stress
• overthinking
• fear of failing again
So even tiny tasks
start feeling emotionally huge.
“The longer I avoid something,
the heavier it becomes.”
Because time doesn’t reduce the pressure.
It multiplies it.
Now the brain is carrying:
• guilt
• stress
• overthinking
• fear of failing again
So even tiny tasks
start feeling emotionally huge.
